See, a Hare before him started! - Off they fly in earnest chace; Every Dog is eager-hearted, All the four are in the race! And the Hare whom they pursue Her hope is near: no turn she makes; Deep the River was, and crusted But the nimble Hare hath trusted To the ice, and safely crost; She hath crost, and without heed All are following at full speed, When, lo! the ice, so thinly spread, Breaks-and the Greyhound, DART, is over head! 'Better fate have PRINCE and SWALLOW See them cleaving to the sport! Music has no heart to follow, Little MUSIC, she stops short. She hath neither wish nor heart, Her's is now another part: A loving Creature she, and brave! And doth her best her struggling Friend to save. From the brink her paws she stretches, Very hands as you would say ! And afflicting moans she fetches, As he breaks the ice away. Him alone she sees and hears, Makes efforts and complainings; nor gives o'er Until her Fellow sunk, and reappear'd no more. TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF Lie here sequester'd:-be this little mound Or want of love, that here no Stone we raise; Yet they to whom thy virtues made thee dear Shall find thee through all changes of the year: This Oak points out thy grave; the silent Tree I pray'd for thee, and that thy end were past; And left thee but a glimmering of the day; It came, and we were glad; yet tears were shed; Old household thoughts, in which thou hadst thy share; Found scarcely any where in like degree! For love, that comes to all; the holy sense, |